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Aug
24
revised CSRF cookie vs session based tokens
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Aug
24
answered Effectiveness of Security Images
Aug
24
comment Effectiveness of Security Images
Couldn't they use JS to pull the info directly from the client browser?
Aug
24
comment Effectiveness of Security Images
What security claims were made regarding the security image? That it prevents phishing? That it makes phishing slightly harder?
Aug
24
comment Is it safer to use less heard of software than popular software?
Should I live in a less crowded area, with less criminal acts per year? (Answer: maybe)
Aug
23
comment Is it safer to use less heard of software than popular software?
"And that the test user is not having password "test" or "password"" How the password of the test user relevant?
Aug
23
comment What is the actual security of this login page?
I'd like a good UI to indicate which webpage parts have been downloaded over HTTP.
Aug
22
comment tor and widecap dns leak
@Para "But suppose this were not my application and not an open source one. How could I solve the problem then?" How exactly does this close-source application perform DNS lookups?
Aug
22
comment What is the actual security of this login page?
See also Do most browsers handle mixed encrypted and unencrypted content correctly?
Aug
22
revised What is the actual security of this login page?
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Aug
22
comment Confusion: Why isn't a passhrase encrypted SSH key two factor auth?
+1 for "inherently unquantifiable" (and also for making up acronyms)
Aug
22
revised What are the security precautions taken to ensure a virtualized domain can't compromise its host
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Aug
21
revised Can an intermediate CA be trusted like a self-signed root CA?
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Aug
21
comment How do RSA fingerprints protect from MITM attacks?
If the fingerprint was a hash of the private key, you would need to private key to verify it!
Aug
20
comment Can I trust the source IP of an HTTP request?
There are difficult issues with per-IP resource meter even without IP spoofing. And it is even a lot more difficult with IPv6 (like, close to impossible).
Aug
20
comment Signed request vs HTTP digest auth for API authentication?
+1 "You should use HMAC for message authentication." Indeed, HMAC is the tool designed by cryptographer for exactly this purpose (message integrity).
Aug
20
comment Are there technical disadvantages in using free ssl certificates?
@Ramhound "Free certificate" as in "free beer" (one certificate, gratis), not free as in "free speech"! It's a certificate for a very low price: 0 $.
Aug
20
revised Are there technical disadvantages in using free ssl certificates?
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Aug
19
comment Finding Win32.Sality sample for malware analysis purposes
And do AV editors in general have some official feed for malware?
Aug
19
comment Do you need to encrypt session data?
Sorry I wasn't clear. Is /tmp written on disk storage? Is it a tmpfs filesystem?